Berlin – November 05, 2026 -- More than 50,000 care employees would lose their jobs before Christmas under the government's Care Reorganization Act (PNOG), according to the private providers' association bpa, as the Bundestag opened its first reading of the bill.
bpa demands outpatient services be included in the social-space budget
bpa President Bernd Meurer objects to two elements of the draft. The first is the exclusion of outpatient services and day care facilities from the planned social-space budget (Sozialraumbudget). The second is the dismantling of providers' advisory structures through the new care companion model (Pflegebegleitung).
Meurer argues the measures solve no problem and save no money. In his assessment, they also worsen care for people who need it.
Meurer calls the plan the largest-ever cut to family relief structures
Meurer says care services are now taking to the streets side by side with family caregivers. He describes the draft as the biggest cut ever to the relief structures available to affected families and says parliament must not wave it through.
He calls on lawmakers to correct what he describes as the federal government's planning errors, noting that no bill leaves the Bundestag as it entered.
bpa rejects distorted refinancing of wage increases
bpa also wants the competitive distortion in the refinancing of pay rises struck from the bill. Meurer says this affects care workers in roughly half of all facilities.